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Green Foxtail (Setaria viridis) Information #2
| Origin: | Native to North America | |
| Use: | Annual, semi-erect and branching grass. | |
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| Life Span | Annual | |
| Growth Form | Semi-erect and branching grass. | |
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| Seeding Rate 40" Rows: Broadcast: | ||
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| General | A coarse annual, semi-erect and branching grass. | |
| ID Features: | Leaves rolled in the bud-shoot. Sheath cylindrical or slightly compressed, not keeled, glabrous but sometimes sparse-appressed pubescent, light green or tinged with purple towards base, split; margins pubescent with hairs about 1 mm. long (where the margins overlap the inner one is glabrous). Auricles absent. Collar broad, distinct, continuous, yellowish green or tinged with red, pubescent along base. Ligule a fringe of hairs 1 to 2 mm. long, fused at base, with the longer hairs towards the edges. Blade 4 to 10 mm. wide, 5 to 20 cm. long, flat, not keeled, gradually tapering to a sharp tip, not ridged but midvein prominent, glabrous, green, scabrous; margins serrulate-scabrous. | |
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